By Alejandra Garcia on December 5, 2021 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
Every December 3, in Cuba and every country in the region we celebrate Latin American Medicine Day, a tribute that has had a special connotation this year. In December, the world is marking the second anniversary of the COVID-19 outbreak and its spread around the world (more…)
By Adán Chávez Frías on November 30, 2021
Adán Chávez, photo: Bill Hackwell
Venezuelan men and women have expressed once again through our latest elections on November 21, the strong determination to preserve the stability and peace of the country; a democratic exercise with which we also strengthen the participating and protagonist process we have been building since 22 years ago for the benefit of all (more…)
By Ariadna Eljuri on December 3, 2021
Photo: @CancilleriaVE
More than 5,363 Venezuelans, coming from Ecuador, have returned to date to the country through the “Return to the Homeland” plan, promoted by the National Government, after the constant xenophobic attacks against the compatriots who are in other nations. (more…)
By Tatiana Coll on December 4, 2021
Cuban and Angolan soldiers. courtesy of Gerardo Hernandez
“How far our intelligence services must have deteriorated that we did not find out that the Cubans were going to Angola, until they were already there!”, Kissinger commented to Carlos Andrés Pérez, president of Venezuela, after the official announcement of the news on November 24, 1975 (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 2, 2021
photo: Juvenal Balán
On December 2, 1956, the Granma yacht arrived in Cuba at Las Coloradas beach, in the eastern part of the island, after a seven-day voyage that began in Mexican waters. On more than one occasion during the trip, the 82 Cuban expedition members, led by Fidel Castro, believed that the small ship would not reach its final destination. (more…)
By Gustavo A. Maranges on December 2, 2021 from Havana
graphic: Lu Rui/GT
A huge event is about to happen in Washington on December 9th and 10th. The Summit for Democracy was announced in late August, and just a few days ago, the United States President Joe Biden announced the invitees to this virtual meeting. (more…)
By Dalia González Delgado on November 29, 2021
Kyle Rittenhouse is the new hero of the radical right in the United States. The acquittal of the young man, accused of killing two people and wounding another during protests in Wisconsin, has provoked mixed reactions and fuels the long debate on racism, violence and gun ownership in this confused country. (more…)
By Eric Nepomuceno on November 28, 2021
photo: Bruno Kelly, Green Peace
New images released in the last few days reinforce what is already known; the total impunity with which illegal miners operate in the Amazon region, including in environmental reserve areas and demarcated territories of indigenous communities, and it is growing more and more. (more…)